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Information Gathering

Reviewing one’s information landscape and optimizing information retrieval from information systems/repositories, as well as human sources of information.

Learning Outcomes

After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Break problems into pieces in order to create a problem-solving process
  • Define their information landscape as a student, employee, and entrepreneur
  • Create a search string to efficiently locate information in web searches and databases
  • Evaluate search/information gathering strategies (both database and human)

List of Videos

  1. Using the KWHLAQ framework (03:03)
  2. Defining your information landscape as a student (03:38)
  3. Defining your information landscape as an employee (04:27)
  4. Defining your information landscape as an entrepreneur (03:36)
  5. Constructing database searches with shotgun and snowball (02:42)
  6. Constructing database searches with building blocks (03:08)
  7. Using Purdue Library databases (03:16)
  8. Gathering information from humans (04:13)
  9. Considering intercultural communication (04:25)